The Atlantic: Fatigue Can Shatter a Person by Ed Yong

[Countrygirl]

Fatigue Can Shatter a Person​

Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.
By Ed Yong

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/

This is an excellent article on PEM/PESE by Ed Yong in The Atlantic. It is about to be hidden behind a paywall so I have made a pdf of the text and attached it.

 

[Jyoti]

Thank you @Countrygirl. A good article from a reputable writer . I am thinking of all the people I may need to share it with!

 

[LaurelW]

Well written and shines a light on a lot of things about this illness that are difficult to articulate, especially with a partially-functional brain. Thanks for posting.

 

[Mary]

Amazing article - thanks @Countrygirl ! The title alone is so spot on!

 

[Violeta]

Thank you, @Countrygirl , for the pdf I missed reading before the paywall hit.

I can't read it without crying.

Ed said there is going to be an audio of it, too!

 

[Rufous McKinney]

Thank you, @Countrygirl , for the pdf I missed reading before the paywall hit.

Very grateful for this post. And to Ed Yong, of course!

I did a sort of scan read (something I can do today because a week of PEM lifted)

My main comment is we are so obsessed with this term Fatigue.

Probably because we are too tired to actually describe ALL the crap thats not working right.

Which I started listing here, and then stopped.

 

[L'engle]

Great article! Yong goes beyond the usual descriptions of the illness and doesn't fall back into stock phrases or out of date information. One of our best journalistic allies, to be sure.

 

[maddietod]

Ed explains my life better than I do! I'm excited to share this article with family members. Thanks for saving this.

 

[maddietod]

@Countrygirl do you have a copy of the Brain Fog article?

 

[Sing]

I believe that Ed Yong wrote an earlier article on this subject, probably also in The Atlantic.

 

[Violeta]

Ed Yong is on Twitter and is offering emailing his article to anyone who emails him asking for it. @maddietodd, if you would like his email address, DM me and I will give it to you.

 

[Sing]

Yes! I found an earlier article by him in the Archive on Long Covid from April of 2023 and he references his first article on this subject from 2020. You can listen to the recording Ed Yong made of this longer article , which is near the top of the article. It is terrific! And it definitely includes references to our illness too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-invisible-disability-chronic-illness/673773/

 

[Countrygirl]

@Countrygirl do you have a copy of the Brain Fog article?

No, I'm sorry I don't think so. If I come across it, I'll post it for you.

 

[maddietod]

Ed Yong is on Twitter and is offering emailing his article to anyone who emails him asking for it. @maddietodd, if you would like his email address, DM me and I will give it to you.

I saw that! What a great guy. I slipped inside of the 24 hour window, but didn't know how to save the article to show to my kids. I've since learned how.

I might do a trial subscription so I can read the 2022 article, we'll see.

Thanks for your offer.

 

[Goldfinch]

Here is an archived link:

https://archive.li/sBL8T

 

[maddietod]

Here is an archived link:

https://archive.li/sBL8T

Can you do this for his brain fog article? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function/671393/ ?

 

[Judee]

I might do a trial subscription so I can read the 2022 article, we'll see.

I'm sometimes able to close my web browser, clear cookies and history and then go back in to view another article on these type of sites.

I think they use those cookies to mark who has been there before and then the paywall comes up.

It doesn't work all the time but you can try it.

???

 

[Goldfinch]

Can you do this for his brain fog article? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function/671393/ ?

I’m sorry, I don’t know how. I’ll keep looking though as this would be good to have.

 

[Violeta]

I have received the article about brain fog from Ed Wong. It's a pdf and I don't know how to post it here. I'll see if my daughter can help me do that.

I may have figured it out

 

[Violeta]